C.I. GEOLOGIA E BOTANICA MARINA

12 CFU - 1° and 2° Semester

AGATA DI STEFANO - Module Marine Geology - GEO/02 - 6 CFU
DONATELLA SERIO - Module Environmental Marine Botany - BIO/03 - 6 CFU

Learning Objectives

Marine Geology
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of the main geological phenomena occurring in the marine environment.

Therefore at the end of the course the students will acquire notions regarding the following topics:

a) different types of ocean basins and the geological phenomena that generated them;

b) techniques of investigations of ocean basins;

c) different types of marine sediments;

d) sampling and analysis techniques for marine sediments;

e) characteristics of the ocean masses;

f) beaches and coastal dynamics;

g) superficial and deep ocean circulation;

h) mineral resources at sea;

i) international marine geology projects.
Environmental Marine Botany
Acquisition of methodologies for the study of benthic marine flora and vegetation on hard and soft substrates, aiming at assessing and monitoring the health of marine coastal environment.

Environmental Marine Botany
Lessons supported by power-point presentations, scientific articles on specific subjects and observations both in nature and in laboratory.

Environmental Marine Botany
Elements of benthic bionomics of the Mediterranean - Concept communities and identification criteria. Zonation of marine benthos. Littoral zone; mediolittoral; infralittoral; circalittoral. Macroflora marina of the Mediterranean sea: biogeographical origin and characteristics; alien species distribution; structure of the marine vegetation of hard and soft substrates. Characterisation and evaluation of a Posidonia oceanica meadows - Methods of sampling and preservation of samples - Study of the surveys and their grouping in the table - The benthic vegetation as indicator of environmental quality: indices synecological - assessment of the ecological status of waters [Framework Directive in the Field of Water (WFD 2000/60/EU)] according to the method CARLIT (Cartography of littoral and benthic communities uppersublittoral) using the biological element macroalgae. Risk factors for biodiversity: habitat destruction and fragmentation, pollution and alien species - national and international standards for the protection of macroalgae and seagrasses.

Marine Geology
1. Bascom W. Onde e spiagge dinamica della superficie marina, Zanichelli, 195 pp.

2. Pinet P.R. 2003 – “Invitation to Oceanography” 3rd Ed., Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 556 pp. (www.jbpub.com/oceanlink)

3. Thurman, H. V. – Burton E.A. 2001 - “Introductory Oceanography”, 9th Ed., Prentice Hall, 554 pp. (www.prenhall.com/thurman)

4. Dispense e “slides” fornite dal docente
Environmental Marine Botany
1 - MANUALE DI METODOLOGIE DI CAMPIONAMENTO E STUDIO DEL BENTHOS MARINO MEDITERRANEO. M.C. Gambi & M. Dappiano (Editori). Biologia Marina Mediterranea, vol. 10 (suppl.). 638 pp.. Genova 2003 (ISSN 1123-4245):

1a - Capitolo 5 - M.C. Buia, M.C. Gambi, M. Dappiano. I sistemi a Fanerogame marine. Pagg. 145-198;

1b - Capitolo 7 - M. Cormaci, G. Furnari, G. Giaccone. Macrofitobenthos. Pagg. 263-262;

1c - Capitolo 18 - C. Morri, D. Bellan-Santini, G. Giaccone, C.N. Bianchi. Principi di Bionomia: definizione dei popolamenti e uso dei descrittori tassonomici (Macrobenthos). Pagg. 605-634.

2 - Quaderni Habitat n. 19 - Praterie a fanerogame marine. Piante con fiori nel Mediterraneo. Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare in collaborazione con il Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale.

3 - ISPRA, 2008 - Quaderno Metodologico sull’elemento biologico MACROALGHE e sul calcolo dello stato ecologico secondo la metodologia CARLIT.

4 - Scientific articles and slides

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